RACIAL BIAS IN THE MEDIA -- By Dr. Robert Warren, PhD

In
January 2007, Christopher Newson and Channon Christianwere jumped at gunpoint
in Knoxville, Tennessee. They were bound, blindfolded and brought to
a rundown rental home in an inner-city neighborhood. Newsom wasn't
there long before he was taken away, sexually assaulted numerous
times, shot in the back of the head, set on fire, and left beside
some railroad tracks a few blocks away. Over the next day, Christian
herself was repeatedly raped in every possible way. Bleach was
sprayed in her mouth to destroy evidence and she was eventually put
in a trash bag where she suffocated. The case has drawn little
national media attention – the defendants are poor and black, the
victims, middle class and white.

It
is virtually unthinkable that a crime of this magnitude and severity
would go unnoticed nationally except for the racial bias of the
mainstream media. And I use the term racial bias because political
correctness is too generic and too innocent a term.

In
March 2006, Crystal
Gail Mangum, a black woman who worked as a stripper, dancer and
escort, accused three white
members of the Duke
University lacrosse team of raping
her at a party. The local district attorney, Mr. Michael Nifong,
immediately labeled it a “hate” crime. In response to the
accusations, Duke University suspended the lacrosse team for the 2006
season and forced the lacrosse coach to resign. 88 members of the
Duke faculty protested against the lacrosse team, coach and accused
students, making it virtually impossible for the students involved in
the case to continue their studies.

On
April 11, 2007, North
Carolina Attorney GeneralRoy
Cooper dropped all charges and declared the three players
innocent. To compensate these players for injustice, Duke University
paid a substantial monetary settlement. Nifong was disbarred,
convicted of criminal contempt, and served one day in jail. The Duke
faculty that participated in the rush to judgment suffered nothing
more than indignity. None were reprimanded, suspended, fired, or
officially sanctioned. Ms. Mangum was never prosecuted.

The
entire incident was made into a national scandal by the mainstream
media, most of whose reporters took the side of Ms. Mangum. It
should have been obvious that a situation of this delicacy deserved
the greatest discretion in obtaining and applying the facts to the
case. Unfortunately, the racial bias of the media, when combined
with the pressures of “getting the news to the public, prevented
such discretion. Notably, the mainstream media was unapologetic when
the truth was revealed.

In
turning to the Trayvon Martin death, we see much the same racial bias
in the news media. For example, to make the politically correct
racial narrative fit the story, the New York Times reported that an
out of control “white” Hispanic named Zimmerman shot Martin, a
black teenager, who was doing nothing more than walking home and
eating skittles candy. The Orlando Sentinel, apparently believing
that they were more racially sensitive, used the terms “white
father and Hispanic mother”. (The fact that the surname
“Zimmerman” is of German Jewish extraction has been left out of
the mainstream media conversation. Stirring up racial hatred has
been sufficient to sell the news.)

As
this story unfolds, it has been changing. The alternative story is
that teenager Martin knocked Zimmerman down, jumped on him, and began
beating him. An eyewitness to the altercation confirmed this
account. Thus, the mainstream media is confronted with a clear
contradiction – which truth to report? Is this a politically
correct “white on black” crime or just another run of the mill
“black on white” crime? So far, the politically correct truth is
still winning the argument and inflaming the public.

Numerous
studies indicate that the overwhelming political orientation of news
reporters is left of center. Charges of liberal bias and political
correctness have been made for years. Few can dispute that the
charges are valid – but they are not enough.

What
must be said is the truth, particularly when it comes to the
treatment of racial matters. Journalistic standards, if such things
exist, do not apply to racial news reporting. The mainstream media
is racist, and needs to be held to account for that racism.

The
bottom line is that it should trouble everyone regardless of
political persuasion that fraud, dishonesty, and, yes, racism in the
mainstream media is tolerated and excused.

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